Cézanne is the ‘father of modern art’. Ironically, the painter who frequently found himself turned down for the Paris salons is now regarded as one of the most important artists of his day. Picasso

In 2005 the Gemeentemuseum received a large bequest in the form of a collection of Dutch art pottery from the estate of lawyer Jaap Douma (1917-2002). As well as items by leading names, the collection

In the 19th century, representations of the naked human body became a fully accepted part of Western European art. Modelled on the classical ideal of beauty and clothed in the decorum of mythology

The famous artwork The Evolution (1911) by Piet Mondrian which is part of the art collection of Kunstmuseum The Hague, is so vulnerable that it could not be lent for years. Still, the famous triptych...

1872 - Pieter Cornelis Mondrian is born in Amersfoort. 1892 - Having obtained a number of art qualifications, Mondrian moves to Amsterdam to continue his artistic training at the Rijksacademie. He...

‘I had to experience how it would be if someone beside me suddenly fell over and died from a direct hit. I needed to experience it directly. I wanted to. So I’m not a pacifist at all – or am I?’

Conservator Ruth Hoppe got the surprise of her life when she looked at the x-ray of Wisteria. This masterpiece, one of three paintings by Claude Monet (1840-1926) in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag’s...

To mark the sixtieth birthday of photographer Anton Corbijn, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag is organising a retrospective entitled HOLLANDS DEEP.